Children of the New World (eBook)

Stories

Alexander Weinstein (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
240 Seiten
Picador (Verlag)
9781250099006 (ISBN)

Infos

The "e;stunning, harrowing, and brilliantly imagined"e; story collection featuring "e;After Yang,"e; the basis for the A24 film starring Colin Farrell (Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven). A New York Times Notable BookChildren of the New World introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants, memory manufacturers, dangerously immersive virtual reality games, and alarmingly intuitive robots. Many of these characters live in a utopian future of instant connection and technological gratification that belies an unbridgeable human distance, while others inhabit a post-collapse landscape made primitive by disaster, which they must work to rebuild as we once did millennia ago. In "e;The Cartographers,"e; the main character works for a company that creates and sells virtual memories, while struggling to maintain a real-world relationship sabotaged by an addiction to his own creations. In "e;After Yang,"e; the robotic brother of an adopted Chinese child malfunctions, and only in his absence does the family realize how he had become a real son. Children of the New World grapples with our unease in this modern world and how our ever-growing dependence on new technologies has changed the shape of our society.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.6.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Science Fiction
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• ISBN-13: 9781250099006 / 9781250099006